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" I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people, on all sorts of subjects, and never knew her in the wrong. She humbles the learned, sets right their disciples, and finds conversation for everybody. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 226
1901
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 45

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1859 - 672 pages
...is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedantic impertinence of the latter. " I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...her through a life of fatigue that would kill me, if I was to continue here."J Lafemmedgee is seen to advantage, at intervals, in Madame d'Arblay's diary...
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The Correspondence of Horace Walpole, with George Montagu, Esq., [and Others ...

Horace Walpole - 1837 - 490 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...right their disciples, and finds conversation for every body. Affectionate as Madame de Sevigne, she has none of her prejudices, but a more universal...
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Correspondence ... with George Montagu ... hon. H.S. Conway [and ..., Volume 2

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1837 - 484 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanify of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...humbles the learned, sets right their disciples, and rinds conversation for every body. Affectionate as Madame de Sevigne, she has none of her prejudices,...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford: Including Numerous ..., Volume 5

Horace Walpole - 1840 - 542 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...her through a life of fatigue that would kill me, if I was to continue here. If we return by one in the morning from suppers in the country, she proposes...
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The letters of Horace Walpole [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 536 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...conversation for everybody. Affectionate as Madame de Scvigne, she has none of her prejudices, but a more universal taste ; and, with the most delicate frame,...
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The letters of Horace Walpole, [ed. by J. Wright].

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1842 - 580 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...right their disciples, and finds conversation for every body. Affectionate as Madame de Se"vigne", she has none of her prejudices, but a more universal...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole: 1759-1769

Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1842 - 580 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...right their disciples, and finds conversation for every body. Affectionate as Madame de Se'vigne', she has none of her prejudices, but a more universal...
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George Selwyn and His Contemporaries: With Memoirs and Notes, Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1843 - 432 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people,...right their disciples, and finds conversation for every body. Affectionate as Madame de Sevigne, she has none of her prejudices, but a more universal...
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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Volume 2

Richard Robert Madden - Authors, Irish - 1855 - 608 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people...right their disciples, and finds conversation for every body. Affectionate as Madame de Sevigne, she has none of her prejudices, but a more universal...
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The Literary Life and Correspondence of the Countess of Blessington, Volume 2

Richard Robert Madden - Authors, Irish - 1855 - 618 pages
...that is sensible in this, without the vanity of the former, or the pedant impertinence of the latter. I have heard her dispute with all sorts of people...right their disciples, and finds conversation for every body. Affectionate as Madame de Sevigne, she has none of her prejudices, but a more universal...
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